Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of functional design.

White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.

The aim of every typographic work - the delivery of a message in the shortest, most efficient manner.

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design. In addition to being more logical, asymmetry has the advantage that its complete appearance is far more optically effective than symmetry.

Perfect typography is more a science than an art.

Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome.

My errors were more fertile than I ever imagined.

The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.

The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by the insensitive.

Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings.

Men love pleasure. but women desire purposeful commitment.

Even if you're not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption.

Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.

I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been, and I did not want to leave him

Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.

Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.

A poem is a record of a discovery.

I'm not running for canonisation.